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Old 10-04-2014, 12:43
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Just 10 and 12 are wrong farmer bob
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Old 10-04-2014, 12:55
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Thanks quizmaster
I try to answer off the top of me head so to speak.
I'd need to be googling your harder questions
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Old 10-04-2014, 19:54
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1. End
2. 1945
3. Goose
4. Emma
5. 1972
6. Jeans
7. Can only think of a waterbed but surely they had those before then.
8. The Wastelands (guess)
9. DR Congo (from axg)
10. Guess at some kind of orchid
11. Drake's equation, so Drake
12. Comte
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Old 10-04-2014, 20:02
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1. 12
2. Nun
3. W
4. Nettle
5. Maria Miller
6. Nicki Minaj (guess)
7. The Holy Grail
8.
9. Whitby
10. Oranges (guess)
11. David Hume
12. I'm drawing a blank but I know this. (Edit - No, I don't know. The name I was thinking of is somebody completely unconnected.)
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Old 10-04-2014, 20:06
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Just 1 and 10 are wrong Jim
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Old 10-04-2014, 20:10
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If anyone knows no 12 I'll be impressed. I've never heard of the guy before curiosity got the better of me there and I googled it. Maybe someone from Norfolk might know it due to local history. It would be a £1million question on WWTBAM.
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Old 10-04-2014, 21:56
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Sallysally got it Jim - Prasutagus

1.Complete the name of this famous woman - Florence... Lark, Sparrow or Nightingale?
2.Which animal appears on the reverse of a 10p piece?
3.Is the musical instrument the lute from the string or brass family?
4.What word goes after bunk and before bug?
5.Which G describe the group of gases responsible for global warming?
6.A tonsillectomy is the surgical removal of which lymphatic tissue found at the back of the mouth?

7.What is the name given to a cross bearing the image of Christ being crucified?
8.In nature, elephant, grey and harp are all types of which marine mammal?
9.The Bridge of No Return connects which two East Asian countries?
10.In Tolkien's books about Middle Earth, what name is given to the tree creatures of Fangorn Forest?
11.The Pilgrim Fathers who colonised North America in the seventeenth-century were followers of which form of Christianity?
12.The Karelia Suite was written by which composer?
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Old 10-04-2014, 21:58
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1. Nightingale
2. Lion
3. String
4. Bed
5. Greenhouse
6. Tonsil

11. Catholics?
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Old 10-04-2014, 21:59
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1) Nightingale
4) bed
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Old 10-04-2014, 21:59
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1.Nightingale
2. Lion?
3. String
4. bed
6.? Tonsils

7.Crucifiction?
8. Seal


11. Quakers
12. Sybilias
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Old 10-04-2014, 21:59
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10. Ents
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Old 10-04-2014, 22:00
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8. Seals
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Old 10-04-2014, 22:00
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All correct except P_P's 11, QofSheba's 7,11

7,9,11
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Old 10-04-2014, 22:02
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My skype-a-friend says 11 is Calvinists
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Old 10-04-2014, 22:02
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1) Nightingale
2) Lion
3) String
4) Bed
5) Greehouse
6) Tonsil
7) Crucifix
8) Seal
9) I'll guess North and South Korea
10) Ents
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Old 10-04-2014, 22:03
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1. Nightingale

2 lion

3. string

4. bed

5 greenhouse

6. tonsils

7 crucifix?

8 seal

9. North and South Korea

10. Ents

11. Quakers

12. Sibelius
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Old 10-04-2014, 22:04
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Not Calvanists, QofSheba
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11
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Old 10-04-2014, 22:04
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7. Crucifix
9. Could it be North and South Koreas?
11. not sure and don't want to hazard a guess and look silly........
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Old 10-04-2014, 22:04
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Just 11 is wrong Sallysally. Both right Jim

11
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Old 10-04-2014, 22:09
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11) I'll guess Protestant
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Old 10-04-2014, 22:27
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1.Nightingale
2.Lion
3.brass
4.bed
5.Greenhouse?
6.Tonsils

7.
8.
9.China & North Korea
10.
11.
12.
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Old 10-04-2014, 22:38
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I'll accept Protestants Barracute - Puritanism
All correct AxG
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Old 10-04-2014, 22:50
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1 nightingale
2 lion
3 string
4 bed
5 greenhouse
6 tonsil glands
7 crucifix
8 seal
9 the 2 koreas
10
11 protestant puritanism
12
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Old 11-04-2014, 12:05
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All correct farmer bob
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Old 14-04-2014, 21:53
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Welcome to this week and a new quiz called days and months

1.The phrase to say that something is unlikely to happen or not happen is never in a month of... what?
2.How many days after Christmas Day is Boxing Day?
3.In Britain, in which two months do the clocks go forward and back one hour respectively?
4.Americans celebrate Independence Day on the 4th of which month?
5.Which 2004 disaster film starred Dennis Quaid as Professor Jack Hall and Jake Gyllenhaal as his son Sam Hall?
6.What is the name of the 16-day beer festival that takes place each year in Munich, Germany?
7.Who plays DI Fred Thursday in the Inspector Morse spin-off series Endeavour?
8.In the Christian church, which day marks the first day of Lent?
9.Which English novelist wrote the 2005 novel Saturday, set during a large demonstration against the 2003 invasion of Iraq?
10.Picture: whose face is this? http://www.postimage.org/image/vi2faj44d/
11.Which famous battle took place on St Crispin's Day in 1415?
12.Who is the mother of the Greek god Hermes, which gives her name to a month of the year?
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